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[Hellfish]

Necrotic Sliver

Committed. Thanks!

Regarding the Giant Shark, the triggers look fine to me, the only issue would be to pretty the card text up a bit by using the "Secondary$ True" parameter for one of the triggers and giving them both proper oracle descriptions.

EDIT: Tests check out fine, too. I'll go ahead and make the adjustments and commit it. Thanks!

[jeffwadsworth]

@Zilbert: Sorry about that; I am wrong. Thanks for the card.

[Zirbert]

@Zilbert: Sorry about that; I am wrong. Thanks for the card.

@Jeff - No, upon further tire-kicking, I found some issues too. They're arguably obscure, but keep it from 100% functionality. I'd say it's at 95%, unless Hellfish's tweaks, which I'm looking forward to checking out, brought it up a notch. Whether that's good enough is up to the commit-status folks, and either decision is fine by me.

I posted about the problems a minute ago in Card Development Questions. I'm trying to do my stupid-question-asking and help-begging over there, and only post completed cards here, for the most part, this post being yet another exception.

No need for apologies - I appreciate how patient and helpful you and the other veterans are being with me as I try to figure this stuff out. Believe me, I intend to keep trying, probably with more lousy old cards that nobody would ever want to play with in the first place!

-Zirbert

[Zirbert]

Just to make up for Giant Shark, here's a card I'll actually play with:

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Name:Awakening
ManaCost:2 G G
Types:Enchantment
Text:no text
T:Mode$ Phase | Phase$ Upkeep | TriggerZones$ Battlefield | Execute$ TrigUntapAll | TriggerDescription$ At the beginning of each upkeep, untap all creatures and lands.
SVar:TrigUntapAll:AB$UntapAll | Cost$ 0 | ValidCards$ Creature,Land | SpellDescription$ untap all creatures and lands.
SVar:Rarity:Rare
SVar:Picture:http://www.wizards.com/global/images/magic/general/awakening.jpg
SetInfo:STH|Rare|http://magiccards.info/scans/en/sh/51.jpg
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[lazylockie]

Name:Chandra's Spitfire
ManaCost:2 R
Types:Creature Elemental
Text:no text
PT:1/3
K:Flying
T:Mode$ DamageDone | ValidSource$ Card.YouCtrl | CombatDamage$ False | ValidTarget$ Opponent | TriggerZones$ Battlefield | Execute$ TrigPump | TriggerDescription$ Whenever an opponent is dealt noncombat damage, CARDNAME gets +3/+0 until end of turn.
SVar:TrigPump:AB$Pump | Cost$ 0 | NumAtt$ +3 | NumDef$ +0 | Defined$ Self
SVar:Rarity:Uncommon
SVar:Picture:http://www.wizards.com/global/images/magic/general/chandras_spitfire.jpg
SetInfo:M11|Uncommon|http://magiccards.info/scans/en/m11/129.jpg
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[Zirbert]

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Name:Soulquake
ManaCost:3 U U B B
Types:Sorcery
Text:no text
A:SP$ChangeZoneAll | Cost$ 3 U U B B | ChangeType$ Creature | Origin$ Battlefield | Destination$ Hand | SubAbility$ SVar=GrabGraveyard
SVar:GrabGraveyard:DB$ChangeZoneAll | Cost$ 0 | ChangeType$ Creature | Origin$ Graveyard | Destination$ Hand | SpellDescription$ Return all creatures on the battlefield and all creature cards in graveyards to their owners' hands.
SVar:Rarity:Rare
SVar:Picture:http://www.wizards.com/global/images/magic/general/soulquake.jpg
SetInfo:ARB|Common|http://magiccards.info/scans/en/arb/30.jpg
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I thought I'd be able to do this one in a single ability line, by putting both Graveyard and Battlefield in the Origin$ argument ("Origins$ Battlefield,Graveyard" or somesuch), but nothing that I tried worked. This way feels like a kludge, but it works.

-Zirbert

[friarsol]

I thought I'd be able to this one in a single ability line, by putting both Graveyard and Battlefield in the Origin$ argument ("Origins$ Battlefield,Graveyard" or somesuch), but nothing that I tried worked. This way feels like a kludge, but it works.

ChangeZone doesn't support multiple Zones as Origins. I don't know why it should feel like a kludge though. It's doing exactly what you want.

[Zirbert]

I thought I'd be able to this one in a single ability line, by putting both Graveyard and Battlefield in the Origin$ argument ("Origins$ Battlefield,Graveyard" or somesuch), but nothing that I tried worked. This way feels like a kludge, but it works.

ChangeZone doesn't support multiple Zones as Origins. I don't know why it should feel like a kludge though. It's doing exactly what you want.

I just thought it would be kind of neat (to use the technical term) to be able to do such a big effect in a single line. This is one of those cases where I saw the card in my binder, and thought, "Hey, that looks easy!" Turned out to be not quite as simple as I thought, although I was happy that I got the SubAbility working with only a few misfired attempts along the way!

-Zirbert

[Zirbert]

Last one for tonight:

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Name:Burgeoning
ManaCost:G
Types:Enchantment
Text:no text
T:Mode$ PlayedLand | ValidCard$ Land.YouDontCtrl | TriggerZones$ Battlefield | Optional$ True | Execute$ TrigDropLand | TriggerDescription$ Whenever an opponent plays a land, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
SVar:TrigDropLand:AB$ChangeZone | Costs$ 0 | Origin$ Hand | Destination$ Battlefield | ChangeType$ Land | ChangeNum$ 1
SVar:Picture:http://www.wizards.com/global/images/magic/general/burgeoning.jpg
SetInfo:STH|Rare|http://magiccards.info/scans/en/sh/52.jpg
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Warning - I haven't tested this one. Since I'm not using the latest SVN version, the PlayedLand trigger isn't available for me yet. I wanted to code a card that used it, though, because Hellfish was nice enough to create a PlayedLand trigger immediately when I requested it. Especially since it turns out I can't do the cards I really intended to (Recycle and Null Profusion) - "skip your draw step" appears to require hardcoding at this time. I'd hate to let the new trigger go to waste, though.

This card seems pretty straightforward, so I think it'll work (famous last words). It's mostly based on Citanul Druid (When opponent plays...) and Elvish Piper (...put X onto the battlefield from your hand) with the relevant parameters changed.

[friarsol]

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Name:Soulquake
A:SP$ChangeZoneAll | Cost$ 3 U U B B | ChangeType$ Creature | Origin$ Battlefield | Destination$ Hand | SubAbility$ SVar=GrabGraveyard
SVar:GrabGraveyard:DB$ChangeZoneAll | Cost$ 0 | ChangeType$ Creature | Origin$ Graveyard | Destination$ Hand | SpellDescription$ Return all creatures on the battlefield and all creature cards in graveyards to their owners' hands.


Just so you know. Drawbacks do NOT require Costs like AB and SP do. By being a drawback, it knows the parent ability is already handling the cost.

[friarsol]

Especially since it turns out I can't do the cards I really intended to (Recycle and Null Profusion) - "skip your draw step" appears to require hardcoding at this time. I'd hate to let the new trigger go to waste, though.

I added some hardcoded draw step skippers for you and added the new issue for a skip step/phase keyword as 114 http://code.google.com/p/cardforge/issues/detail?id=114

[Zirbert]

Especially since it turns out I can't do the cards I really intended to (Recycle and Null Profusion) - "skip your draw step" appears to require hardcoding at this time. I'd hate to let the new trigger go to waste, though.

I added some hardcoded draw step skippers for you and added the new issue for a skip step/phase keyword as 114 http://code.google.com/p/cardforge/issues/detail?id=114

Sol, have I mentioned lately that you rock, and mightily at that? It bears repeating.

-Zirbert

[Sloth]

Last one for tonight:

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Name:Burgeoning
ManaCost:G
Types:Enchantment
Text:no text
T:Mode$ PlayedLand | ValidCard$ Land.YouDontCtrl | TriggerZones$ Battlefield | Optional$ True | Execute$ TrigDropLand | TriggerDescription$ Whenever an opponent plays a land, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
SVar:TrigDropLand:AB$ChangeZone | Costs$ 0 | Origin$ Hand | Destination$ Battlefield | ChangeType$ Land | ChangeNum$ 1
SVar:Picture:http://www.wizards.com/global/images/magic/general/burgeoning.jpg
SetInfo:STH|Rare|http://magiccards.info/scans/en/sh/52.jpg
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Warning - I haven't tested this one. Since I'm not using the latest SVN version, the PlayedLand trigger isn't available for me yet. I wanted to code a card that used it, though, because Hellfish was nice enough to create a PlayedLand trigger immediately when I requested it. Especially since it turns out I can't do the cards I really intended to (Recycle and Null Profusion) - "skip your draw step" appears to require hardcoding at this time. I'd hate to let the new trigger go to waste, though.

This card seems pretty straightforward, so I think it'll work (famous last words). It's mostly based on Citanul Druid (When opponent plays...) and Elvish Piper (...put X onto the battlefield from your hand) with the relevant parameters changed.

I've added Burgeoning, but Soulquake was already added a few days ago.

[jhhh]

Name:Manabond
ManaCost:G
Types:Enchantment
Text:no text
T:Mode$ Phase | Phase$ End of Turn | ValidPlayer$ You |TriggerZones$ Battlefield | Optional$ True | Execute$ TrigChangeAll | TriggerDescription$ At the beginning of your end step, you may reveal your hand and put all land cards from it onto the battlefield. If you do, discard your hand.
SVar:TrigChangeAll:AB$ChangeZoneAll | Cost$ 0 | ChangeType$ Land.YouCtrl | Origin$ Hand | Destination$ Battlefield | SubAbility$ SVar=DBDiscard
SVar:DBDiscard:DB$Discard | Mode$ Hand
SVar:Rarity:Rare
SVar:Picture:http://magiccards.info/scans/en/ex/113.jpg
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[jeffwadsworth]

@jhhh, added but put someone else's nick on it. Sorry about that. Thanks for the great card.